Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens on the number the government would rather you did not notice: unemployment is now higher than it was at the peak of the pandemic, with 50,000 small businesses gone in the past eighteen months. He argues Labor keeps loading up what it calls reform, measures designed to save or make the government money, while doing nothing to curb its own spending.

He reads the mood inside Labor as the finger pointing begins, with talk of a reshuffle and questions over Treasurer Jim Chalmers, and warns it is starting to echo the Rudd and Gillard years. Then he takes apart the fairness argument put by Assistant Treasurer Dan Mulino on trusts and tax, pointing to the Comcar, the superannuation and the travel allowances that politicians enjoy and the rest of us pay for, and asks where the real savings are: the 59 personal advisers to the Prime Minister on up to $400,000 each.

Plus Labor's digital duty of care and the we will control slip on free speech, why gambling advertising escapes the same scrutiny, a brief word on the allegations around Senator Jordon Steele-John, and the usual look back at this day in history, from the Sydney Opera House opening in 1973 to Tom Petty.

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Captain Richard de Crespigny AM, the pilot in command of Qantas Flight 32 when an Airbus A380 suffered an uncontrolled engine failure out of Singapore in 2010, joins Jeremy Cordeaux on this week's Court of Public Opinion to give his verdict on the shocking flydubai incident in which one pilot attacked another on the flight deck.

He walks through the chain of luck that saved everyone on board, from the cockpit door being opened to a passenger's headlock and a relief pilot pulling the 737 out of a high-speed dive, questions airline recruitment and screening, explains why the aircraft might never fly again, and talks about his new book on personal, corporate and national resilience.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 2 October 2026.

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Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens with a timely warning for anyone posting Christmas presents overseas: don't leave it past the first of December. He takes aim at the Prime Minister's chosen legacy of rewiring the nation, saying the transmission towers and wires criss-crossing the country will be remembered with every electricity bill, and slams a proposed levy on power bills to fund electric vehicle charging stations, which he dubs the recharge surcharge. If you choose an EV, he says, the cost of charging should be yours.

He questions the digital duty of care legislation and why it does not extend to gambling advertising, then turns to the Greens' plan, led by Max Chandler-Mather, for the government to take over 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets and run cut-price stores. Jeremy recalls Bob Hawke-era ventures such as Bourke's department store and the ACTU's Solo service stations, and points out supermarket profit margins of around one per cent. He also calls for an end to the $200 million spent by the state government on advertising in four years.

Jeremy remembers Lord Jeffrey Archer, a frequent guest from his radio days, looks at David Jones' $95.5 million loss as Country Road, Witchery and Mimco pull out of 100 shopfronts, questions the High Court's coal decision, and says South Australia's 100 per cent renewables target has quietly become 75 per cent. Plus 53,000 complaints about phone reception, Finland's search for a professional smeller, and this day in history, from Mata Hari, Napoleon's exile and the invention of shredded wheat to Penny Marshall, Cole Porter and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator.

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Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage for The Court of Public Opinion as the Reserve Bank lines up a fourth rate rise this year. Unleaded is sitting around $2.40 a litre, diesel is tipped to hit $4 and there is no further excise relief coming. Jeremy says households are paying for policy choices on spending and net zero, and warns of a recession we didn't have to have.

Also on the show: the Prime Minister's “Citizen of the World” award and the cost of the UN trip, AI hacks and calls for a moratorium, the disability housing funds where investors lost tens of millions and no homes were built, a Queensland poll putting Pauline Hanson ahead as preferred PM, the MotoGP and parklands trees in the Federal Court, Don McLean still touring at 81, and what happened on this day in history.

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The complete live stream of The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM, from around the dining room table on Friday 9 October 2026. Dr John Bruni on the 81 lost US warplanes and Russia's shadow war on Europe, Professor David Flint on Pauline Hanson's Swiss style reforms, mediator Jody Fitzgerald on Parliament's knives and feuding neighbours, Geoffrey Watson SC on the High Court and grey corruption, and John Ovenden with tech whiz Melanie Lewis on beating the scammers.

In this show
0:00:00 Jeremy Cordeaux opens the show
0:25:46 Dr John Bruni: The 81 Lost US Warplanes and Russia's Shadow War on Europe
1:01:40 Professor David Flint: Only Pauline Hanson's Swiss-Style Reforms Can Save Australia
1:35:03 Mediator Jody Fitzgerald on Parliament's Knives, Feuding Neighbours and the $100 Goat
2:07:14 Geoffrey Watson SC Fires Back at the High Court Critics and Exposes Grey Corruption
2:36:06 Don't Hit Unsubscribe! John Ovenden and Tech Whiz Melanie Lewis on Beating the Scammers

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This show aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 9 October 2026.

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Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, opening with Australia's porridge cannoli taking best speciality dish at Scotland's Golden Spurtle, before asking why a "mid-year" budget review lands in December and whether it will carry any cost of living relief. With the football grand finals over, he argues the media has the sports rights business backwards: broadcasters pay billions to the codes when it is their coverage that fills the grandstands and attracts the sponsors. He recalls doing exactly that at 5DN, when the SANFL wanted $50,000 for the season and he offered to pay it, then charge the same for the coverage and promotion; both sides ended up doing it for nothing.

He salutes the people who went to court to try to save the trees in the Adelaide parklands, questions the call for a Royal Commission into AI at around $100 million when he says the technology exists to replace jobs, and welcomes the Liberals' immigration policy for putting Australia's needs first, returning to the almost one million people on unemployment support. He also touches on the failed execution in Tennessee, the climate talks in Fiji, and hazing at universities and in the military, which he says has to stop. Plus this day in history from the microwave oven, Paul Hogan and John Lennon's Imagine to Sergeant York and Sir John Monash.

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Emeritus Professor Carolyn Strange from the ANU History Department joins Jeremy Cordeaux to discuss the planned live stream of a US military firing-squad execution, which has now been called off while the execution itself is set to proceed.

She explains how the power to take a life has always been tied to rulers, from Roman emperors to modern presidents, why the live stream plan echoes 19th century arguments that moved executions behind prison walls, what really happens with firing squad rounds, and why 200 US exonerations since 1976 matter in any debate about appeals and death row.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 October 2026.

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Senator Alex Antic joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM and Professor Ian Plimer fresh from winning the presidency of the South Australian Liberal Party. He explains how he won, why he wants to hand the party back to its members, and how grassroots members drove the push against net zero.

Alex also talks energy security, the scrutiny that keeps good people out of politics, the growth of government in Canberra and why he would happily spend a whole term repealing laws.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 25 September 2026.

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